So the new Master Crafter monthly achievement requires us to craft 40 items of Masterwork quality or higher.
Let’s create a list of what we think would be the cheapest and or easiest items to craft for each of the crafting disciplines: chef, artificer, weaponsmith, armorsmith, huntsman, jeweler, leatherworker and tailor.
This will help those of us who have maxed our disciplines save some time and coin on this portion of the monthly.
You really don’t have to make anything. All you need is to refine Mithril ore into ingots and you are done. It would also work with other ore or planks ect..
So there isn’t a need to use mats for something you don’t need or can’t sell.
You really don’t have to make anything. All you need is to refine Mithril ore into ingots and you are done. It would also work with other ore or planks ect..
So there isn’t a need to use mats for something you don’t need or can’t sell.
This is incorrect. The original poster is talking about the monthly achievement, which requires you to craft 40 items at Masterwork (green) level or higher.
I’ve made fairly good progress with jewels as well but I’ve found it cheap to buy bronze plated inscriptions (they’re about 1s20~40 each) and combine with a large green haft and a bronze hammer head. Around 48s for the inscriptions, 45s60c for the bronze hammer heads and 21s60c for the hafts. That’s about 1g15s20c for everything, and then you can sell back your 40 green hammers at 72c each to recuperate some of your costs (28s80c). So in total you’ll spend 86s40c.
If you have a higher level weaponsmithing, then mithril plated dowels are faster. Didn’t check TP for prices but most of us should have stacks of these ores and woods lying around anyway.
Of course, what’s been more cost effective for me was to buy embellished brilliant chrysocola whatevers (the level 375 karma recipe one for jeweller that requires one glob of ecto to make) from the TP, make earrings and salvage. Please don’t craft this yourself as it requires one ecto and 3 jewels but you can buy them straight off the TP for under 15s (ectos alone cost more than 30s each). You can actually break even with this technique if you get enough ectos from salvaging.
But I assume more people have level 50 weaponsmithing than 375 jewellery crafting.
The way I did it on my Chef today was I bought 400 Pumpkin pies on the trader for 2-3 copper each. For less than 9 silver total I crafted 40 trays of pumpkin pies.
Note I already happened to have that recipe from the forge, but there are other low level feast recipes that don’t require a large outlay to get the tray/feast recipe of them.
Feast of clam cakes is a level 25 recipe. Clam cakes themselves sell for 2 copper.
so after mystic forging the feast recipe(a one time expense of 6 skill points for 9 crystals and about 1g60s for 6 bottles of Elonian wine and 17 mystic coins which you likely have from finishing dailies exploring regions etc. ) you’d have to only spend 8silver to buy 400 clam cakes. to do that monthly whenever it comes up. and your left with a bunch of trays that give a +10% MF buff to any who eat at it. Quasi useful even
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”
? Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
As a weaponsmith, I just created plated dowels (master) from whichever tier I had the most unneeded mats from. Just need wood and ingots. Got that monthly done in all of 1 minute xD.
The monthly has also crashed the price of plated dowels for all tiers to ridiculously low levels. XD I was sorely tempted to buy some instead of crafting them for my crafting burst this Tier, but I eventually decided against it as I needed the crafting XP for my characters anyway.
Yeah nice. No monthly for those who don’t care about crafting.
What is this argumentation. All you have to do is press a few buttons and you get a free monthly and free exp.
It’s like complaining you can’t do dungeons when you don’t care about leveling.
I happened to have two tray recipes that were popular with people in wvw: Trays of Mango Pies, and Feasts of Super Veggie Pizza. I made those, then I celebrated in LA first by dropping feasts to celebrate my first ever MONTHLY reward since I began playing.
Then last night a call went out for help in WvW. (which I like to do, but is too intense for my laid back wandering soul playstyle) so I went and set out trays of mango pie and pizza at our spawn in place.
Just for fun and frolic.
Thank you Arenanet for switching the monthly so I could get at least one this year.
I crafted 40 batches of Ruminant tonics (artificer 200) that require 1 water, 1 pile of radiant dust, 1 slab of red meat and 1 rugged leather section each. I think the recipe is discoverable but am not sure (the wiki doesn’t indicate).
So the new Master Crafter monthly achievement requires us to craft 40 items of Masterwork quality or higher.
Let’s create a list of what we think would be the cheapest and or easiest items to craft for each of the crafting disciplines: chef, artificer, weaponsmith, armorsmith, huntsman, jeweler, leatherworker and tailor.
This will help those of us who have maxed our disciplines save some time and coin on this portion of the monthly.
Craft Ori plated dowels, just need 192 ori ore, 192 ancient wood, then seel wht you made, I only lost 60 silver, but hey… its now done.
I made money by upgrading 80 of my ruby crystals to orbs and dumping them on the TP only minutes after the monthly came out. Ruby orb price is dropping fast now.
+1’d your post for that.